Health and Fitness Tips

When you open up your meal plan booklet and shuffle through the cards, you will notice that the foods listed are foods that you eat on a daily basis. The difference is that you need to make the food work FOR you, not AGAINST you. This article will show you how to tweak your favorite weight loss meals in order to add flavor while skimping on fat.

The important factor in reducing calorie intake while cooking is learning how to cook without oil and fat. Most people use large amounts of oil to make food not stick the frying pan when cooking meats and vegetables. Cooking oil is a waste of calories and should be avoided when on the meal plan.

The first thing you need to do is buy a good nonstick frying pan. If you have one, great! A nonstick frying pan will make the food slip off the pan. There will be no need to add additional oils. Also, you won’t notice a different in taste between food with oil and without oil. Oil does not add any flavor in your food, it just makes you fat.

The Michael Thurmond diet consists of eating egg whites for breakfast (you can also eat different proteins for breakfast if you want). Cooking egg whites is a snap when using a nonstick pan. Do not use oil when cooking eggs as you do not want to add empty calories to your meals. This inversely affects your whole meal plan. Make sure that the pan is very hot before adding the eggs, that way the eggs will fry fast and will not stick to the pan.

Use a vegetable stock or no sodium chicken broth when cooking chicken or fish. Also you can use white wine as a good nonstick agent for meats. Don’t worry about the calories in the alcohol, they will burn away when cooking your meat.

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